Found in books 11: when flying was fun
Jul. 7th, 2012 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
callmemadamHaven’t done one of these posts for quite a while. The postcard shows the terminal at Gatwick Airport and is postmarked on the back August 1963. In those days, we had legible postmarks on our mail! The senders were just setting off on holiday and sent a last minute card to a friend. Can you imagine sending such a card today?
Usually I have to confess that I can’t remember which book the found item was in but this one I’m sure of because I only got it yesterday. Our local Co-op has introduced a bookcase where people can donate books, videos, DVDs etc. There’s an honesty bucket for Mencap. The books are almost always rubbish paperbacks but yesterday there were lots of hardback Georgette Heyers! They were all in different editions and none had a dustwrapper. Rather sad, really, as probably someone had died and her whole collection been donated. As so often, I couldn’t remember which particular edition I had of any book so I just rummaged for firsts. Best buy: a first of Cotillion which I had in a book club edition. I’m purist enough that I’ll probably keep the first, even though the book club copy has a pretty dustwrapper. No chance of going to the market this morning, due to heavy rain, so these books will be my only find of the week.
Usually I have to confess that I can’t remember which book the found item was in but this one I’m sure of because I only got it yesterday. Our local Co-op has introduced a bookcase where people can donate books, videos, DVDs etc. There’s an honesty bucket for Mencap. The books are almost always rubbish paperbacks but yesterday there were lots of hardback Georgette Heyers! They were all in different editions and none had a dustwrapper. Rather sad, really, as probably someone had died and her whole collection been donated. As so often, I couldn’t remember which particular edition I had of any book so I just rummaged for firsts. Best buy: a first of Cotillion which I had in a book club edition. I’m purist enough that I’ll probably keep the first, even though the book club copy has a pretty dustwrapper. No chance of going to the market this morning, due to heavy rain, so these books will be my only find of the week.
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Date: 2012-07-07 08:48 am (UTC)I have the Phaidon Boriing Postcards books whic are full of postcards like that (and of course aren't boring at all).
What a lovely find - the books and the card.
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Date: 2012-07-07 10:09 am (UTC)Does that book have postcards of motorway service stations? They're quite collectable, I believe!
A piece of luck and it was only drizzling then, so I had quite a good outing. Real rain set in later and hasn't stopped since. I must make a rainy icon.
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Date: 2012-07-07 09:45 am (UTC)no subject
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